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David Isby

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http://SpitfirevsBf109.com

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Nonfiction, History, Professional & Technical

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July 2012

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David Isby is an acclaimed author, attorney, and national defense consultant. In Washington, first as a congressional staff member and, subsequently, as a consultant on national security issues, Isby has worked for numerous firms with a range of governmental and private sector clients. He continues to write extensively on national security and military history topics, and is an author or editor of more than 20 books and 350 essays and articles in publications including International Defense Review, USA Today, Washington Times, Jane's Defense Weekly, Strategic Review, Comparative Strategy, Jamestown Terrorism Monitor, and Jane's Intelligence Review. He also has lectured at many staff colleges including National Defense University, US Army Wa ...more

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	Afghanistan: Graveyard of Empires: A New History of the Borderland 3.39 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 2010 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fighting The Invasion: The German Army At D-Day by David Isby (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Robert Kershaw (Foreword) 3.64 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2000 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Decisive Duel: Spitfire vs 109 4.22 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Russia’s War in Afghanistan by David Isby (Goodreads Author), Ronald Volstad (Illustrator) 3.52 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1986 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Leave No Man Behind: Us Special Forces Raids and Rescues from 1945 to the Gulf War 3.26 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2004 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Weapons and Tactics of the Soviet Army 4.19 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1981 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fighting In Normandy: The German Army from D-Day to Villers-Bocage by David Isby (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Heinz Guderian, Fritz Kramer 3.43 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2001 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fighting The Bombers: The Luftwaffe's struggle against the Allied Bomber Offensive by David Isby (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Adolf Galland (Contributor), Josef Kammhuber (Contributor) 3.50 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2003 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Times History of War by David Isby (Goodreads Author), Mark Herman, Richard Brooks 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jane's Fighter Combat in the Jet Age (Jane's Air War, 1) by David Isby (Goodreads Author), Ian Drury (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1997 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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David’s Quotes

“On THE DECSIVE DUEL: SPITFIRE VS 109
The epic struggle between the Spitfire and the Messerschmitt 109 upon which so much of western civilization depended in the summer of 1940 has found the ideal biographer in David Isby. I write "biographer" because, like the men who flew these remarkable fighter planes, Isby sees them in almost human terms, transcending the mere mechanical. (Andrew Roberts, Author Of The Storm Of War )”
― Andrew Roberts

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